ME & THAT MAN are set to release their debut album, Songs of Love & Death via Cooking Vinyl on 24th March 2017. The first track is revealed via the Lynchian video for the album’s lead single, My Church Is Black.
ME & THAT MAN is a meeting at the crossroads; Nergal, the charismatic visionary, free thinker and frontman of Behemoth, one of the most infamous and increasingly successful bands in extreme music and British/Polish rock musician, John Porter. Their debut album, Songs of Love & Death is a journey across bleak, dust-ravaged plains, soundtracked by low-slung guitars and steeped in the rawest essence of rock and blues. The tracks draw on dark narratives familiar to fans of Nick Cave, Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen and crackle with an evocative, sinister aesthetic.
Songs of Love & Death features sleeve artwork by Daniel P. Carter and is available for pre-order now with vinyl and special bundles here.
Watch the video for My Church Is Black here:
Admirers of everything from Johnny Cash’s American Recordings through to the grim, frontier polemic of Wovenhand will be drawn in by these songs. The collection may appear vastly different to what Nergal is best known for, but as far as he is concerned, ME & THAT MAN is a necessary and vital a part of his creative life: a new way to express the same ideas of individualism, defiance and darkness.
He explains,“With Me & That Man, the songs just come out in a very organic way. One would be bluesy, one would be more of a ballad, but put together they all made sense. I need Me & That Man to keep the balance, as the potential of my mother band seems limitless. It gets bigger and bigger, more advanced and more sophisticated… and darker …and blacker. But Me & That Man is at the opposite pole, artistically speaking. With all the best art, once you have it in you you have to release it, otherwise it becomes intoxicating and dangerous to your own system. This is how I deal with my emotions and my dark feelings and shadows. This is not happy music, but it’s liberating.”
“This is a side-project, but I don’t really know what it’s going to grow into,” Nergal concludes. “The idea was just to get this music out to people. There’s no hidden agenda. It is what it is, and if you like it, it’s cool. If you don’t, that’s cool too. This is the battle we’ve already won.”
